title: Safety performance factor.
abstract: Workplace safety performance is computed using frequency rate (FR) and severity rate (SR). Only work time lost due to occupational incidents that need to be reported is counted. FR and SR are the 2 most important safety performance indicators that are applied universally; however, calculations differ from country to country. All injuries and time lost should be considered while calculating safety performance. The extent of severity does not matter as every incident is counted. So, a new factor has to be defined; it should be based on the hours or days lost due to each occupational incident, irrespective of its severity. The new safety performance factor is defined as the average human-hour unit lost due to occupational accidents/incidents, including fatalities, first-aid incidents, bruises and cuts. The formula is simple and easy to apply.
authors.affiliation: M+W Zander, Shanghai, Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China. joke.n.joy@gmail.com
authors.forename: Naray
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Venkataraman
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007564:Japan; D007723:Korea; D016272:Occupational Health; D012846:Singapore; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology